Telejornalismo, identidades e deficiência visual: representação e recepção midiáticas junto a pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

In contemporary global reality, where visual impairment affects about 45 million people, the thesis relates to the area of communication studies (and media reception), identity and disability, through topics such as visual impairment, television, television journalism, image, representation, social inclusion, citizenship and the right to information and communication. The proposal is based on two main issues: to analyze the representation that the main Brazilian television news (Jornal Nacional, Globo) produces relating to the visually impaired, based on a textual analysis of TV applied to 16 news on the subject, aired during the year 2011 (January-December); and to check in a reception research with focus groups of eight visually impaired, as they interpret that representation, noting, for example, if they feel identified with it and respected by that same newscast. The theoretical and empirical approaches are organized into four chapters that compose the study: “Visual impairment: scientific and social perspectives”; “Media communication and identities”; “Media representation of the visually impaired in Jornal Nacional: textual analysis of news”; and “Identities and reception of TV news by visually impaired: research with focus group”.